Whilst branching and tagging dhcpcd-5 it seems that a commit I made didn’t find its way to the branched and tagged release, hence me releasing dhcpcd-5.0.1
dhcpcd-5 branch. You can see here that I did commit before branching but if you look at the tarball built from svn the commit “Fix existing address detection.” isn’t there.
Now, whilst this ‘‘‘could’’’ be an error on my part, I’m not prepared to take the chance it’s also a subversion error.
Linux ifconfig truely sucks. It cannot handle multiple inet addresses easily (using aliases for the interface name sucks). Also ifconfig sucks for a lot of scripting usage. Whilst iproute2 is a lot friendlier, it’s also not ifconfig- which makes portable(ish) network configuration a lot harder.
Lastly, Linux has a lof of misc tools- ifenslave, vlanconfig, etc, which should all be wrapped up into ifconfig. The BSD ifconfig is a very good example of how network configuration should be done.
openresolv-3.0 is now out.
It doesn’t have any functional changes or improvements over the 2.0 version. So why the big release? Configuration baby, configuration.
Debian’s resolvconf has plenty of mini configuration files, which openresolv has supported. This is quite problematic from a package distribution and maintainability perspective. Also, the implementation required plenty of forking sed or equivalent to parse them which is inefficient.
So openresolv now sports a shiny configuration file, which I think is more flexible and easier to manage.
After slaving away with more GTK+ learning, I’ve finished a promising new dialog for dhcpcd-gtk.
I’ve also spent a lot of time polishing it with nicer icons, messages and titles. Unlike the previous version, this dialog works fully! It’s looking so good, I’ve just released dhcpcd-gtk into pkgsrc for your pleasure- enjoy :)
I also ought to get off my lazy ass and get ebuilds for them into Gentoo- maybe someone can do it for me?
I’ve lost that Drupal feeling for good now. Maintaining it was a bit too much hard work. Whilst trac is still a bit of work, the database structure is a lot easier to use and as such access my data.
All blog posts and comments have been retained, as has my image gallery. There are a few errors in the migration, but they are acceptable.
So welcome to new the site and enjoy :)
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